Oil Paintings

Fracchetti’s paintings are of cold northern scenes, but through skillful use of lighting effects, he manages to instill a sense of warmth and tranquility which defies the harsh and frigid images.

"In the Arctic, light is probably the best material you can find to describe through painting the feeling of the north. With the Northern Lights, the moon, the midnight sun — there are so many different moods and effects of light and shadow."

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Charcoal Drawings

Fracchetti particularly appreciates how the Inuit make use of their spare time over the winter applying their creativity to artisan projects such as sculpture. He sketched them as he watched them work. His black and white drawings effectively capture the more dramatic expressions of their human sentiments and the effects of the northern elements on their features.

"I feel that realism and painstaking details best capture the mood, feeling and wonder of the subject studied."

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